Hotel Brasil

By Betto Frei

Subjects: Investigation, Rio de janeiro (brazil), fiction, Murder, Fiction, Beheading, Fiction, crime

Description: "The decapitated body of a hotel resident is found. The eyes have been removed from the head, casually left on the floor of the room. The victim's eerie, frozen Mona Lisa smile seems to indicate that the murderer had been received as a friend. According to the police, the victim was stabbed in the heart and died before the decapitation. As the investigation continues, with few leads or clues worth pursuing, other hotel clients are found dead; all decapitated, usually with the head found delicately balanced on their knees."--Amazon.com, viewed 3/12/14.